AMT Corvair HELP

[Tye Brown]

Hi Guys

Just wondering if anyone could help me out on this kit please? What year model was the car and if the kit has been re-released at all with the drag parts?

Cheers

[Speedfreak]

Tye, I don't know about that kit but Speed City has a resin long nose '66 Corvair funny car kit for $40.00, looks pretty close. I just love the idea of a funny car Corvair.

http://speedcityresin.com/GMPage.htm

It's at the bottom of the page.

[Mark]

It is basically the stock Corvair body (around 1967) with the chassis/engine/interior from the mid-engine '66 Barrcuda funny car (released by both Model King and AMT as the Hemi Under Glass). You could use the body from a recent issue Corvair kit, and sand the side markers off. The custom engine cover (with two oval slots and the integral spoiler) was used. The headlamp covers, front spoiler, and two shortened rear bumpers (mainly to fill the attachment holes for the rear bumper) were new parts, on a separate unplated tree. Those parts have never appeared in any other issue of the Corvair, but you could instead use the stock parts and make a front spoiler. The rear of the Barracuda chassis (where it slopes downward behind the rear wheels) has to be trimmed for it to fit inside the Corvair body, but otherwise everything should work. The fit may not be perfect, but if so then neither was the original kit. AMT did several of these "combine two kits to make one" deals in the late Sixties, to get a few new products at minimal expense.

[Tye Brown]

Thanks so much Mark, that was the excat info I was looking for man

Cheers

[Mark]

The box art car has "427" markings, but the engine is the 426 Hemi from the Barracuda. That engine has the distributor/magneto (not sure which it has) in the wrong place; in the kit it is at the rear of the engine (like a 392 Hemi).